Alexandros Gidarakos
Senior Platform Engineer
Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandros Gidarakos is a Senior Platform Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, highly regulated financial IT systems. He is a Linux Foundation–certified systems engineer expert in RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu, Linux security hardening, and automation using Bash, Python and PowerShell, with practical cloud experience in AWS and some OCI exposure. Alexandros has led incident command and remediation for mission-critical trading platforms, driven monitoring improvements with tools like BPPM/TrueSight and Splunk, and authored clear operational documentation and runbooks. Comfortable coding across C/C++, Qt, PHP, JavaScript and SQL, he blends deep systems knowledge with developer sensibilities to troubleshoot complex cross-stack issues. Colleagues rely on him for decisive leadership in crisis situations and for quietly improving observability and process efficiencies that reduce operational noise. Based in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, he combines a disciplined military background with continuous self-driven learning in web and cloud technologies.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampedXUdacityBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of IoanninaHigh School, High School at 1st High School of EvosmosLinux AcademyOpen2StudyS.S.A.S. Military Academy of Corps Officers
Greek, English
Github Skills (21)
pluralsight10
aws10
devsecops9
security-hardening9
terraform9
gcp9
security9
gdpr9
hardening9
azure9
compliance9
python8
devops7
cloud-security7
php7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AlexGidarakos/linux-qol-tweaks
Jan 2024 - Feb 2026
A collection of QoL tweaks I usually apply on a fresh Linux installation
Contributions:41 PRs, 68 pushes, 33 branches in 2 years 1 month
AlexGidarakos/MyUserScripts
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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